In this Book
- Leaders of Reform: Progressive Republicans in Kansas, 1900-1916
- Book
- 1974
- Published by: University Press of Kansas
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In Leaders of Reform Robert Sherman La Forte examines the intricacies of shifting factions within the state majority party over a two decade period, from the Boss-Busters and political machines of the early 1900s through the formation of a new party behind Theodore Roosevelt in 1913. He discusses the motives, activities, accomplishments, and failures of the progressive Republicans. He provides excellent vignettes of major leaders such as William Allen White, Arthur Capper, Joseph L. Bristow, and Charles Curtis, as well as lesser-known characters such as Walter Roscoe Stubbs, Edward H. Hoch, and Cy Leland, Jr.
In providing a detailed analysis of virtually all Kansas progressive Republican leaders during the era, La Forte has made a valuable contribution to both state and national political history.
Open access edition funded by the National Endowment for Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program.
Table of Contents
- Kansas Open Books Foreword
- pp. ix-xii
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xiii-xiv
- 7. The State and Governor Stubbs, 1909-1911
- pp. 111-134
- 8. Taft and the Kansas Insurgents, 1909-1910
- pp. 135-162
- 10. With Roosevelt to Armageddon, 1912
- pp. 185-208
- 13. Epilogue: How Things Can End
- pp. 247-262
- Bibliography
- pp. 297-306